Friday, February 22, 2008

Louis Castle announced yesterday at GDC2008 that EA's upcoming title "Boom Blox" will ship with an easter egg that allows head-tracking using the Wii remote! Very cool. Here's the Digg article someone created for it - which you should all digg to help drum up some attention and demand for this feature. Reward the developers who decided this was worth including and send a signal to EA and the greater game development community that this is a desired step forward in the evolution of game play technology. The expected release will be in May.

I'm proud. If this pans out, it'll be only 5 months between the initial research prototype to integration into a major product release. Sweet! Happy to see my stuff being used. Humorously, there were 3 other demos on the GDC expo floor showing variations of my head tracking demo. =o)

Just in case you are wondering: No, I don't get any royalties or benefits for the use of this technique in games. Personally, I'm much happier impacting the state of technology on such a large scale in such a short period of time rather than struggling to transform it into personal financial gain. In terms of my original intent behind creating the head-tracking demo, it has already been a wild success beyond my highest expectations.

Nice work, that was one of those things I could imagine people saying "that's cool" but then never actually doing anything about it. Hopefully this will spur some more thinking by other game/software designers.

It's great that I'll be able to try out your concept in a real live game so soon! I salute you for not asking for royalties, as we'd no doubt never see this come to fruition if you did.

But may I suggest that you sell head-tracking "kits" to earn some money? I'm sure that EA won't be providing hardware, since it's an "Easter Egg" in their game. I'd buy a pair of modified safety goggles and/or a Wii Remote stand from you to help support your work and your web presence.

Thanks Johnny. When I saw your video I got so excited about the possibilities. It just seems like this could be a giant leap forward for immersive games. (I love your projector calibrator too) All the best!

I'll be demoing a FPS game that uses wiimote head tracking for player movement and iSight laser detection for shooting at PyCon in Chicago in March. I'll send you a link when I've got source (and video) up.

I would love to see a simple replacement of the wii's sensor bar that received as well as transmitted (removes the need for an additional remote) and a proper headset (not goggles) that had headphones, microphone and two infrared transmitters. I would love to see this simple set up. The hardware at the other end of the sensor bar probably isnt geared up to receive signals, but wii 2 should have this out of the box (please!).

I saw your headtracking demo when it came out and I was super-impressed by it. I just heard now that they're actually NOT including it in the final game build :( I'm very sorry to hear that, and to be honest, have NO CLUE why they'd do that. I was really looking forward to seeing the idea implemented in a commercial release since it would've spurred on other developers to think along those lines...

Oh, well. Maybe somebody else is going to have both the brains and the balls to use it :)

I can't believe they pulled headtracking from Boom Blox! That was the only reason I was going to get that game, and I know I'm not the only one who will NOT be getting it now! I'm VERY disappointed that they did this...how dare they tease us with such a cool feature, and then take it away a week or so before release. Screw them! I hope that game FAILS!

dude it sucks that they pulled the feature before the release. go 1 better on them, become a wiiware developer or something and make the feature commercially available yourself! go for it dude! this needs to happen somehow

Johnny, your head tracking idea is the most awesome idea I have seen in the last few months. So cool and clever! Btw, if there is any way to contribute, post in the blog and I'll pitch in. I am already trying out your whiteboard.

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